“Soon he'll come in again and kiss me, but differently. He'll be different and so I'll be different. It'll be different. I thought, 'It'll be different, different. It must be different.”

“He says: ‘it doesn’t matter. What I know is that I could do this with you’ — he makes a movement with his hands like a baker, kneading a loaf of bread — ‘and afterwards you’d be different.”

“Your red dress,’ she said, and laughed.But I looked at the dress on the floor and it was as if the fire had spread across the room. It was beautiful and it reminded me of something I must do. I will remember I thought. I will remember quite soon now.”

“Sometimes our fate is different from the one we imagined for ourselves.”

“Oh, it makes a difference, I thought. And if it doesn't make a difference you will make it make a difference.”

“Blot out the moon, Pull down the stars. Love in the dark, for we're for the darkSo soon, so soon.”

“There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference.”